Software Engineer, EC2 VPC Control Plane

Amazon Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Sign-on payments

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Herndon, VA is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design and build scalable services for EC2 VPC. You will own features end-to-end, from design through deployment and production monitoring, collaborating across AWS regions.

You will work with Java, Kotlin, Python, and Ruby to create robust APIs and tooling; the role emphasizes availability, automated deployments, and mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for scalable systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software language.

Responsibilities

• Design and build server-side APIs and asynchronous workflows in Java and Kotlin that operate at EC2 scale across all AWS regions
• Own services end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring
• Troubleshoot and root-cause customer-impacting issues across distributed systems
• Write and review design documents for new features and system improvements
• Mentor junior engineers through design reviews and code reviews
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive operational improvements to improve availability
• Build and maintain automation tooling in Python and Ruby to support deployment safety and fleet operations

Skills

Software development

System design

Programming languages

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Python

Ruby

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Herndon, VA is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design and build scalable services for EC2 VPC. You will own features end-to-end, from design through deployment and production monitoring, collaborating across AWS regions.

You will work with Java, Kotlin, Python, and Ruby to create robust APIs and tooling; the role emphasizes availability, automated deployments, and mentoring junior engineers.